A COMPARATIVE ANALYSIS OF WORD - FORMATION PROCESSES IN ENGLISH AND HAUSA
A COMPARATIVE ANALYSIS OF WORD - FORMATION PROCESSES IN ENGLISH AND HAUSA
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2011-01
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BUHARI, HAUWA’U ABUBAKAR
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Abstract
This study is a research on the topic: “A Comparative Analysis of Wordformation
Processes in English and Hausa”. This work aims to serve as a
reference material to subsequent studies in English and Hausa languages in
their various components of linguistic structures. It would also provide a
framework for the study and analysis oftheword-formation processes in
English and Hausa. The study would also add to the research findings and
meta-theory in linguistics thus, contributing to the current trend of
intellectualism from the point of viewof language.Thework also attempts
to enumerate and compare some of the word-formation processes in English
and Hausa,such as acronyms, affixation, alternation, backformation,
blending, borrowing, clipping, coinage, compounding, and reduplication.A
sample descriptive approach was employed in the analysis of the data
collected for this research. Thus, the procedure followed is a synthesis of the
analytical comparative model of Nida (1949) and the stagesof linguistic
analysis of Carl (1996). Therefore, some of the research findings are that
English and Hausa use some processes to create some words; thataffixation
is one of the processes foundin both English and Hausa;that some of the
processes discussed here could be found in one and not in the other
language, etc. Finally, it contains brief conclusion.
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Being a thesis submitted to the postgraduate school, Ahmadu Bello
University Zaria, in partial fulfillment of the requirements for the award of
the degree of Master’s of Arts in English Language, Department of English
and Literary Studies, Faculty of Arts, Ahmadu Bello University, Zaria.
January, 2011.
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COMPARATIVE,, ANALYSIS,, WORD,, FORMATION,, PROCESSES,, ENGLISH,, HAUSA,